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T'Pol is the worst Vulcan character.


I've only watched a couple of episodes so far but as for T'Pol, I am really disappointed. By the third episode I've seen her being morally judgmental about eating meat, almost naked with ice pick nipples rubbing herself down with an oil substance, and lying to Tripp right before she shoots him.
This is some of the worst writing for a Vulcan I can imagine.

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Just finished the whole series and while I liked her character it was poorly written at times. It does get better and you have to pay attention and you can pick up why she behaves the way she does. The Trip / T'pol romance was poorly handled to say the least in my opinion, it's like they started it and then didn't know what to do with it.

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She gets better as time goes on. By Midway through season 1 they stop with the whole rub down stuff except for 1 episode where she gets some fake pom far.

As far as her relationship with trip I think it was handled really well. You need to think of it in context. It was literally the first human Vulcan relationship. The ideology of the species were different as were the morals plus she didn't really know how to deal with emotion and trip didn't understand why she was always so closed off and wouldn't admit she had feelings for him.

I think it was very well done. I'm very glad it wasn't in your face romance all the time because that wouldn't be realistic for those characters at all.

By the end of it all I think she's a great Vulcan who's played with far more nuance than we normally get.

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But she's got the best Vulvan rack! I think I'm gonna let this one slide.

http://65.media.tumblr.com/0cabf84453c3edff48b48f14c484660f/tumblr_inline_mpzbjfteEO1qz4rgp.jpg

Give me a Pepsi Free.

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I think you should watch more of the series at first it took me some time to get used to it but I think in the end she is after Nimoy's Spock-character the most well developed/best acted Vulcan character of any Trek-series.And also take into account the Vulcans of ENT are nothing like the Vulcans from TOS,TNG,DS9 or VOY as you will find out watching ENT much of what Spock talked about in TOS of the Vulcans of the past still apply (to a certain degree)on the Vulcans of ENT but for T'Pol to make sense you must watch the character develop during the course of the series and I can tell you I was pleasantly surprised with Blalock's performance.

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Spock's got a decent rack but it's nothing on T'Pol's.

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Heck no, she's just fine in her role. She was the best thing about this series. Her being super hot helped. Great rack. Legendary rack.

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you're on crack. other than Spock, who was better? Tuvok??? She is definite second only to Spock.

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I didn't mind T'Pol as much, individually, as I did the handling of Vulcans in general on Enterprise.

They were characterized with far too much emotion, acting more like anal retentives with sticks up their butts and noses in the air than logical stoics. Spock was half human and didn't play the role with nearly the emotion of nearly every Enterprise Vulcan.

They even found a convenient way to emotionalize T'Pol in s3, even beyond the others.


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Vulcans are vegetarians. That's established on TOS. I really like T'Pol. T'Pol isn't a typical Vulvcan, as is explained over the course of the series. Her mother discusses T'Pol's difficulty with suppressing emotion.

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T'Pol's not bad. They casted it well, it helps Blalock in that her warped and mutilated face, blank and expressionless after, there's no denying it, all that surgery actually helps her play a Vulcan with their lack of emotion. I think she would have been prettier without the surgery. But at least they gave her another chance. Acting's not too bad either.

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